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Google Announces Wearables OS as LG and Motorola Smartwatches Emerge

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| Mar 19, 2014

Yesterday Google unveiled Android Wear, an operating system targeted squarely at the emerging wearable devices market. Initially Android Wear will be available for Smartwatches, but eventually be made available to all types of wearable devices. A developer preview of the OS was released yesterday alongside the announcement.

Google said smartwatches using Android Wear would be available later this year, and that it was working with device vendors (it referenced ASUS, HTC, LG, Motorola, and Samsung), semiconductor suppliers (it referenced Broadcom, Imagination, Intel, MediaTek and Qualcomm), and fashion brand Fossil.

Two smartwatch announcements coincided with the Android Wear announcement, from LG and Motorola. LG announced the G Watch which will ship in Q2 2014. Motorola announced the Moto 360, which will be available as summer 2014, initially in the U.S. No pricing was disclosed for either model.